Sorry - but you are wrong here.... The 250F is clearly the car that Fangio drove in Monaco `57 and that 250F was #2528 (s. photo/© B. Cahier). The "Picolo"-250F have a small bulge on the right side which is not with the car on Cahier`s photo!. The no.1 is clearly a 450S as it shows the long and round bulge on the engine bonnet. The 300S -and in particular #3080/#3083- had not such detail. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Even if graphically the #32 is similar,with thoses pictures you can see that this is not the same car (air vents, exhaust). photo of the rear com from "Maserati 250F,a technical appraisal" of Andy Hall. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Seeing this photos (thanks for posting!) you might be right! Can you support your thesis that this car is #2534? And which race with no.32?
I don't think either video is that true to life. The drivers have no oil splattered trousers. The couple are clearly NOT fighting. There is no evidence that she has complained that the car is "too small, too noisy, too hot and ruining my dress". There even seems to be a suggestion of a conversation taking place - which we all know is impossible. Neither of the drivers emerges red faced, sweating and slightly deaf, at the same time feeling slightly dizzy from exhaust inhalation. Completely inauthentic
I compared the 250F's picture with the photos of the second Piccolo of Buel (2534 or 2533-2534 if the fist is 2532-2533) in Handbook of Grand Prix cars Tanner p111 Maserati Sports,Racing & GT Cars Crump & de la Rive Box p151 Grand Prix Championship 1950-70 Pritchard P53 Modena Racing Memories Gauld p80 & 81 (brand new one week before the GP d'Italia with a #3 !) Racing in color 1954-1959 Coltrin p111 & 112 Car Graphic 1980 ? and it match. #32 is Gregory at the GP d'Italia 7/9/58 with 2532-2533 and 2534 as spare car. For the GP du Maroc in october, 2534 was modified. For the 300S,the date of the Copenhagen Cup at Roskilde is 16/8/58.
OK, good catch as of the 250F! But this is NOT a 300S with race-no.1 in that photo! The car has a typical 450S-engine hood....
Hi Walter is noting the vented air intake on the front bonnet, he is not indicating the front right fender, this points to it being a 450s Racing Car. Regards, David Zeunert - Melbourne - Australia - 13/1/2013.
....gosh!!! Thats a very good point! You are right - and I am wrong (errare humanum est...)! By looking closer to this image I also found that the 450S Moss used at the `Ring in `57 had a major air intake on top of both front fenders (see 2nd photo). This detail is also missing on the car in this photo. Although the typography how the "1" was painted is very similar to the one in the photo I strongly assume that this is not the Moss`300S he drove in Sweden and Denmark as its bonnet was completely different as seen on this photo of #3080. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hello Mr. Dierkes, some weeks ago i sent you an email at pietro-frua.de about the 2 mistery S.Farina Asturas posted on prewar.com and claimed to Frua. Because in the last 4 years i'm researching on the Lancia Aprilia for a book, i found a lot of photos/documents in private and public archives concerning the Asturas too. If you like to know something more about those S.Farina Asturas, please contact me at [email protected]. Sorry if i contact you here, but you didn't allow to receive a PM.
